Down the TBR Hole #5 - 11/12/2020

 

Down The TBR Hole is a meme created by Lia @ Lost in a Story that revolves around cleansing your TBR of all those books you’re never going to read and sort through it all to know what’s actually on there.

It works like this:

• Go to your Goodreads to-read shelf.
• Order on ascending date added.
• Take the first 5 (or 10 (or even more if you're feeling adventurous) books. Of course if you do this weekly, you start where you left off the last time.
• Read the synopses of the books.
• Decide: Keep it or let it go?

So I made a comment the other day about wanting to be more active on the blog again, and so Joood, my arch-nemesis, bossed me into joining this meme. I'm just going to warn you that this is going to be an exercise in futility for me, because I add dozens of books to my to-read shelf on Goodreads every day as I enter literally all of the giveaways. But that is also going to add another element to my posts, because I refuse to completely break up with a giveaway win, at least for now. I may change my mind on that in the future. But also, since my shelf is so crazy out of control and only getting worse, I'm going to have to go through way more than ten books per post. So for now, my posts will be light on graphics, and I'm only going to explain the books I'm keeping. 

Let's go, shall we?

At the end of my last post I'd managed to whittle my to-read list down to 139,603. But as per usual, I've entered more giveaways, so this is where we are starting for today. 

Current To Read Count: 139,655

The Living End by Robert Leleux - Goodbye

Artful Attractions by S.K. Logsdon - This book has been unpublished, so bye

Anatomy by Simon Travers - So long

When Your Adult Child Breaks Your Heart by Joel Young and Christine Adamec - Farewell

Citrene Stories by Jacob Lindaman - See ya

The 1990s Coloring Book by James Grange - Adios

Stranger on Stranger by GB Hope - Auf wiedersehen

At Any Price by Brenna Aubrey - Ciao

The Ghosts of Tupelo Landing by Sheila Turnage - Sayonara

Kahtar Warrior of the Ages by S.R. Karfelt - Bye now (10)

Kellie at Come-Alive Cottage by Wendy Unsworth - See ya later

Lunen: Triblood by Ahmed Al-Sheikh - Goodbye

Crazy Ex-Ghoulfriend by Angela Roquet - TTFN

Catching Serenity by JoAnn Durgin - So long

The Dragon Within by Cindy Lyle - See ya

The Book of Duels by Michael Garriga - Farewell

Dr. Frank Einstein by Eric Berg - Adios

The Wishnik by Kurt Newton - Seems to have been unpublished, so bye bye

Daughter of Empire: My Life as a Mountbatten by Pamela Hicks - Auf wiedersehen

Song of the Sirens by Kaylie Austen - Out of print, so it's going away (20)

The Lord of Shadows by E.E. Ewer - Ciao

The Rise of Renegade X by Chelsea M. Campbell - Hasta la vista

Drunk Dialing the Divine by Amber Koneval - See ya later

Sharing Works! by Petra Ortiz - TTFN

Plain Murder by Emma Miller - Goodbye

The Yanks are Starving by Glen Craney - Sayonara

Afterparty by Ann Redisch Stampler - Farewell

The Book of Death by Ramy Tadros - Adios

Secret of Omordion by Nande Orcel - Bye for now

Born of the Grave by Danny Cantrell - See ya (30)

Dear Me by Anthony Henry Joseph Maria - Auf wiedersehen 

Scattered Magic by S.A. Archer and S. Ravynheart - This book is out of print, so away it goes.

Beginnings by Aneta Krpekyan - So long

13 Quick Shivers by James Frederick Leach - Goodbye

Dear Mr. President by Jason Saltoun-Ebin - Hasta la vista

Fear the Light by William Massa - TTFN

The Debt of Tamar by Nicole Dweck - Ciao

Jack! by Tova Dian Dean - I won a copy of this book, so it stays.

The Apprentice Journals by J. Michael Shell - Buh-bye

Charmed by Erica Ridley - This appears to maybe have been unpublished, so I shall say farewell (40)

Rising by Wade Hanna - See ya

Shubian's Rift by Joseph M. Dwyer - Goodbye

The Winter Witch by Paula Brackston - TTFN

25 Ways to Communicate Respect to Your Husband by Jennifer Flanders - Don't need that!

The Night Before Christmas (Now With Cats) by Melissa Haas - Sayonara

The Devil Brigade by Toni Odell - So long

Tales From Dark Places by various authors - Goodbye

Desolate Pages: Careful What You Wish For by E.M. Elizondo - Later

Dark One Rising by Leandra Martin - Auf wiedersehen

Discoveries in Bible Prophecy by Michael D. Fortner - See ya later (50)

The Secret Dinosaur: Giants Awake by NS Blackman - Adios

The Thorndike Legacy by Gabriel Madison - Bye

BirthCONTROL: A Husband's Honest Account of Pregnancy by James Vavasour - Boy bye

Gliders of Enlil by Jeffrey Carl - Hasta la vista

Magenta Rave by Janna Zonder - Farewell

Survive! Inside the Human Body Vol 1 by Gomdori Co and Hyun-Dong Han - Ciao

The Witches' Sleep by Kaitlyn Deann - TTFN

The Twible by Jana Riess - So long

The Covenant of Malta by G. Dalentini - Sayonara

Legends of the New Worlds by Shelly Katheryn - See ya (60)

Over the Rainbow by Brian Rowe - Goodbye

The Dragondain by Richard Due - Adios

The Moon Coin by Richard Due - Auf wiedersehen

The Teddy Bear Conspiracy by Duane Gundrum - See ya later

The Ultimate Tree House Project by Gary Nelson - Sayonara

Awakening by Christy Dorrity - Hasta la vista

Damselfly by Jennie Bates Bozic - Bye

The Called it Moosicide by Lisa Hall Deckert - TTFN

100 Doors to Madness by various authors - Ciao

Beware the Dark by Paul Fry - Goodbye (70)

Bad Elephant Far Stream by Samuel Hawley - See ya

Sorrow of the Dragon Gods by Pam McElprang - Farewell

First World by Jaymin Eve - Adios

Aliens in the Gift Shop by D.E. Morris - Goodbye

Firehearted by Sabrina Chase - Auf Wiedersehen

Last Chance by Michelle O'Leary - Later

Here There be Dragons by Michelle O'Leary - So long

The Reincarnationist Papers by D. Eric Malkranz - Sayonara

Guess What is at the North Pole by Nancy O'Neill - Hasta la vista

The King's Marauder by Dewey Lambdin - Bye (80)

Life Class by Ann Charney - TTFN

Hunt for the Hydra by Jason Fry - See ya later

Palace of Dreams by Adam Jay Epstein - Bye

Gifts of the Blood by Vicki Keire - Farewell

Darkness in the Blood by Vicki Keire - Goodbye

Blood Redemption by Vicki Keire - Adios

The Cleansing by Sam Kates - Auf wiedersehen

Soulless by Toni Hofman - Later

Star Road by Matthew Costello and Rick Hautala - Sayonara

The Enlightening by Adrianne James - Goodbye (90)

City of Bones by Cassandra Clare - So long

Into the Fire by Jodi McIsaac - Hasta la vista

Vigilante by Kerry Wilkinson - See ya

Copper Heart by Leena Lehtolainen - Farewell

All Through the Night by Connie Brockway - TTFN

Promise Me Heaven by Connie Brockway - Adios

The Orphan's Promise by Pierre Grimbert - Bye

A Watershed Year by Susan Schoenberger - Later

The Magpies by Mark Edwards - Sayonara

A Day at the Office by Matt Dunn - Auf wiedersehen

Books removed: 99

Books kept: 1

Guys! I only kept ONE book from this list of 100 books, and that one because I won a copy of it through a giveaway. This feels huge for me. If I can have more lists like this, I'll get my to-read shelf pared down in about 4 years (and I wish that was a joke). 

I'll be back tomorrow with another big list. - Katie